FreeNASASRock Rack C2750D4I BMC / Watchdog Issue

JoshDW19

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iXsystems is proud to provide our customers the best enterprise storage systems and support. As part of our ongoing support, we have verified an issue with the firmware on the ASRock Rack C2750D4I mainboard in the FreeNAS Mini which affects the Board Management Controller, or BMC.

The BMC contains a hardware watchdog timer meant to detect a software lockup. The watchdogd daemon in FreeNAS 9.x pings the hardware watchdog every few seconds to show that the operating system is still...